Standards - Social Studies

SS10.4.8.3

Explaining economic conditions as a result of the Civil War, including the collapse of the economic structure, destruction of the transportation infrastructure, and high casualty rates

SS10.4.9

Analyze political and economic issues facing Alabama during Reconstruction for their impact on various social groups.

COS Examples

Examples: political–military rule, presence of Freedmen’s Bureau, Alabama’s readmittance to the Union

economic–sharecropping, tenant farming, scarcity of goods and money

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Alabama faced many political issues during Reconstruction including military rule, presence of Freedmen's Bureau, and Alabama's readmittance to the Union.
  • Alabama faced many economic issues during Reconstruction including sharecropping, tenant farming, scarcity of goods and money.
  • Many African Americans, including James Rapier, Benjamin Turner, William Savery, and Jeremiah Haralson, had an impact on Alabama during Reconstruction.
  • The major political parties in Alabama, including Radical Republicans, Bourbon Democrats, and Populists.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify political issues facing Alabama during Reconstruction including military rule, presence of Freedmen's Bureau, and Alabama's readmittance to the Union.
  • Identify economic issues facing Alabama during Reconstruction including sharecropping, tenant farming, scarcity of goods and money.
  • Summarize the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
  • Recall African Americans who had an impact on Alabama during Reconstruction in Alabama.
  • Identify major political parties in Alabama during Reconstruction.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Reconstruction was the rebuilding of Alabama's government and economy after the Civil War.
  • Alabama had to meet several specific criteria before being granted re-admittance to the Union and that the criteria was see as controversial by some people in the state.

Vocabulary

  • Reconstruction
  • political parties
  • "Redeemer" Democrats
  • Radical Republicans
  • military rule
  • readmittance
  • restoration
  • Union
  • scarcity

SS10.4.10

Analyze social and educational changes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for their impact on Alabama.

COS Examples

Examples: social–implementation of the Plessey versus Ferguson separate but not equal“ court decision birth of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)__educational–establishment of normal schools and land-grant colleges such as Huntsville Normal School (Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical [A&M] University) Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama (Auburn University) Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (Tuskegee University) Lincoln Normal School (Alabama State University)

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • The social impact of the implementation of the Plessey v. Ferguson "separate but not equal" court decision and the birth of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Alabama.
  • The educational changes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries impacted Alabama in several ways including the establishment of normal schools and land-grant colleges such as Huntsville Normal School (Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical [A&M] University), Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama (Auburn University), Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (Tuskegee University), Lincoln Normal School (Alabama State University).
  • The changing role of industry, trade, and agriculture in Alabama during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the rise of Populism.
  • The purposes and the effects of Jim Crow Laws.
  • Important Alabamians who made contributions in the fields of science, education, the arts, politics, and business during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries including Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Jesse Owens, Tallulah Bankhead, W.C. Handy, Helen Keller, Patti Ruffner Jacobs, and Julia Tutwiler.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify social changes in Alabama including implementation of the Plessey versus Ferguson "separate but not equal" court decision, birth of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
  • Identify educational changes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for their impact on Alabama including the establishment of normal schools and land-grant colleges such as Huntsville Normal School (Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical [A&M] University), Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama (Auburn University), Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (Tuskegee University), Lincoln Normal School (Alabama State University).
  • Identify the cause and effect relationship between the development and changing role of industry, trade, and agriculture in Alabama during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the rise of Populism.
  • Interpret the Jim Crow laws.
  • Identify Alabamians who made contributions in the fields of science, education, the arts, politics, and business during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Industry and agriculture in Alabama saw many changes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  • Social (racial) injustices occurred in Alabama during this time and these injustices impacted Alabama.
  • Many key Alabamians had an impact on the world of education.

Vocabulary

  • implementation
  • agriculture
  • "separate but not equal"
  • Populism
  • suffrage

SS10.4.10.1

Explaining the development and changing role of industry, trade, and agriculture in Alabama during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the rise of Populism

SS10.4.10.3

Identifying Alabamians who made contributions in the fields of science, education, the arts, politics, and business during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

SS10.4.11

Describe the impact of World War I on Alabamians, including the migration of African Americans from Alabama to the North and West, utilization of Alabama’s military installations and training facilities, and increased production of goods for the war effort.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • How Alabamians were impacted by WWI.
  • The factors that led to the migration of African Americans from Alabama to the North and West.
  • Alabama was home to many military installations and training facilities.
  • The production of many goods increased greatly as a result of the war.
  • Many Alabamians participated in the war including Alabama's 167th Regiment of the Rainbow Division.
  • New technologies, including airplanes, machine guns, and chemical warfare, greatly impacted the outcome of the war.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Recognize the impact of World War I on Alabamians.
  • Trace on a map the migration of African Americans from Alabama to the North and West.
  • Identify Alabama's military installations and training facilities.
  • Analyze graphs to determine increased production of specific goods during WWI.
  • Identify World War I technologies, including airplanes, machine guns, and chemical warfare.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • World War I had a significant impact on Alabama.

Vocabulary

  • analyze
  • infer
  • assess
  • home front
  • propaganda
  • installation
  • utilization
  • technology
  • WWI
  • Great Migration

SS10.4.12

Explain the impact the 1920s and Great Depression had on different socioeconomic groups in Alabama.

COS Examples

Examples: 1920s–increase in availability of electricity, employment opportunities, wages, products, consumption of goods and services; overproduction of goods; stock market crash

Great Depression–overcropping of land, unemployment, poverty, establishment of new federal programs

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • The increase in availability of electricity, employment opportunities, wages, products, consumption of goods and services, the overproduction of goods, and the stock market crash each had an impact on Alabama in the 1920's.
  • The overcropping of land, unemployment, poverty, establishment of new federal programs impacted Alabama during the Great Depression.
  • Supply and demand had an impact on the economies of Alabama and the United States during the 1920s and the Great Depression.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Explain the impact the 1920s had on different socioeconomic groups in Alabama including increase in availability of electricity, employment opportunities, wages, products, consumption of goods and services; overproduction of goods; stock market crash.
  • Explain the impact the Great Depression had on different socioeconomic groups in Alabama including overcropping of land, unemployment, poverty, establishment of new federal programs.
  • Interpret data linked to supply and demand and understand how this impacted economies of Alabama and the United States during the 1920s and the Great Depression. Analyze the human impact of New Deal programs on the people of Alabama.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Events and consumer habits in the 1920's impacted the lives of Alabamians and how they lived during the Great Depression.

Vocabulary

  • analyze
  • supply and demand
  • overproduction
  • overcropping
  • TVA
  • unemployment
  • poverty
  • wages
  • consumption
  • stock market
  • Great Depression
  • migrant
  • foreclosure
  • soup kitchen
  • relief
  • discrimination
  • segregation
  • consumer goods

SS10.4.12.1

Explaining how supply and demand impacted economies of Alabama and the United States during the 1920s and the Great Depression

SS10.4.13

Describe the economic and social impact of World War II on Alabamians, including entry of women into the workforce, increase in job opportunities, rationing, utilization of Alabama’s military installations, military recruitment, the draft, and a rise in racial consciousness.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • How World War II impacted Alabama economically and socially.
  • Women played an important role in the military.
  • Racial tensions affected Alabamians on the homefront.
  • The importance of the Tuskegee Airmen.
  • The involvement of Alabamians in the War Effort varied from helping on the homefront to volunteering or being drafted to serve in combat.
  • Alabama had important military bases during WWII including Redstone Arsenal, Fort Rucker, Fort McClellan, and Craig Air Force Base.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Describe the economic and social impact of World War II on Alabamians, including the entry of women into the workforce, increase in job opportunities, rationing, utilization of Alabama's military installations, military recruitment, the draft, and a rise in racial consciousness.
  • Identify Alabama participants in World War II, including the Tuskegee Airmen and women in the military.
  • Locate military bases in Alabama, including Redstone Arsenal, Fort Rucker, Fort McClellan, and Craig Air Force Base.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Even though WWII was being fought on foreign soil, it still impacted the social and economic lives of Alabamians in many ways.

Vocabulary

  • analyze
  • justify
  • workforce
  • rationing
  • draft
  • strategic
  • Tuskegee Airmen
  • victory garden
  • recruit
  • segregation
  • discrimination

SS10.4.13.2

Justifying the strategic placement of military bases in Alabama, including Redstone Arsenal, Fort Rucker, Fort McClellan, and Craig Air Force Base

SS10.4.14

Analyze the modern Civil Rights Movement to determine the social, political, and economic impact on Alabama.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Many of the key leaders that were vital to the modern Civil Rights movement including Martin Luther King, Jr.; George C. Wallace; Rosa Parks; Fred Shuttlesworth; John Lewis; Malcolm X; Thurgood Marshall; Hugo Black; and Ralph David Abernathy.
  • How the Montgomery Bus Boycott and other forms of protest impacted Alabama's economy.
  • How the many forms of non-violent protests were used to help African Americans in Alabama gain equality including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Selma-to-Montgomery March, and children's marches.
  • African Americans in Alabama were often the victims of violence while trying to gain equality (Sixteenth Street Church bombing, Freedom Riders bus bombing).

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Recognize important persons of the modern Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr.; George C. Wallace; Rosa Parks; Fred Shuttlesworth; John Lewis; Malcolm X; Thurgood Marshall; Hugo Black; and Ralph David Abernathy.
  • Describe events of the modern Civil Rights Movement, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, the Freedom Riders bus bombing, and the Selma-to-Montgomery March.
  • Interpret primary sources such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Brown versus Board of Education Supreme Court case of 1954, and Letters from the Birmingham Jail.
  • Use vocabulary associated with the modern Civil Rights Movement, including discrimination, prejudice, segregation, integration, suffrage, and rights.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Many individuals and events had a social, political, and economic impact on the people of Alabama during the modern Civil Rights Movement. There were many benefits of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Brown v. Board (1954).
  • The doctrine of separate but equal called for specific things.
  • These events also had a significant impact on the nation.

Vocabulary

  • analyze
  • interpret
  • discrimination
  • prejudice
  • protest (violent and non-violent)
  • boycott
  • sit-in
  • segregation
  • integration
  • Jim Crow
  • suffrage
  • rights
  • NAACP

SS10.4.14.1

Recognizing important persons of the modern Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr.; George C. Wallace; Rosa Parks; Fred Shuttlesworth; John Lewis; Malcolm X; Thurgood Marshall; Hugo Black; and Ralph David Abernathy

SS10.4.14.2

Describing events of the modern Civil Rights Movement, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, the Freedom Riders bus bombing, and the Selma-to-Montgomery March

SS10.4.14.3

Explaining benefits of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Brown versus Board of Education Supreme Court case of 1954

SS10.4.14.4

Using vocabulary associated with the modern Civil Rights Movement, including discrimination, prejudice, segregation, integration, suffrage, and rights

SS10.4.15

Identify major world events that influenced Alabama since 1950, including the Korean Conflict, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, and the War on Terrorism.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Important world events that have influenced Alabama since 1950.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Locate places related to important events on a map.
  • Create a timeline of important events.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Important world events have a significant impact on Alabama.
  • There is a history and importance of Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.
  • The Apollo missions had an impact on Alabama and the World.

Vocabulary

  • Korean Conflict
  • Cold War
  • Vietnam War
  • Persian Gulf War
  • War on Terrorism

SS10.4.16

Determine the impact of population growth on cities, major road systems, demographics, natural resources, and the natural environment of Alabama during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • The causes of population growth in cities includes natural resources, advancements in technology, and placement of foreign based industries.
  • Key technology inventions that have changed the lives of Alabamians.
  • Key technology inventions that have changed the power of the media's influence over Alabamians.
  • Location of major waterways and road systems in Alabama impacts the population density of an area.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify major road systems, natural resources, and areas of population growth.
  • Relate Alabama's economy to the influence of technology and foreign based industry.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Technological advancements that have occurred in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have greatly impacted the lives of Alabamians socially, economically, and globally.
  • The natural resources available in Alabama in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries led to the growth of Alabama's population.

Vocabulary

  • assess
  • technological advancements
  • population growth
  • demographics
  • natural resources
  • foreign-based
  • economy

SS10.4.16.1

Describing how technological advancements brought change to Alabamians, including the telephone; refrigerator; automobile; television; and wireless, Internet, and space technologies

SS10.5.1

Locate on a map physical features that impacted the exploration and settlement of the Americas, including ocean currents, prevailing winds, large forests, major rivers, and significant mountain ranges.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • How geographic features such as ocean currents, prevailing winds, large forests, major rivers, and significant mountain ranges influenced exploration and settlement of the Americas.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Correctly use maps to identify various physical and cultural features, including natural harbors, states and capitals.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Geographical features influenced the exploration and settlement of the Americas.

Vocabulary

  • impact
  • exploration
  • settlement
  • prevailing
  • legend (key)
  • physical features
  • cultural features

SS10.5.1.2

Identifying natural harbors in North America

COS Examples

Examples: Mobile, Boston, New York, New Orleans, Savannah (Alabama)

SS10.5.2

Identify causes and effects of early migration and settlement of North America.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • The various causes of early migration and settlement on North America.
  • The effects of these early migration and settlement patterns.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify migration and settlement patterns on a map.
  • Identify causes of settlement and migration.
  • Identify effects of settlement and migration.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There were many causes and effects of early migration and settlement on North America.

Vocabulary

  • demography
  • cause
  • effect
  • migration
  • settlement

SS10.5.3

Distinguish differences among major American Indian cultures in North America according to geographic region, natural resources, community organization, economy, and belief systems.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • The description of major American Indian cultures including geographic regions, the use of natural resources, community organization, economy and belief systems and locate these nations on a map.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Locate major American Indian nations on a map.
  • Distinguish American Indian cultural groups by examining the geographic region, natural resources, community organization, economy, and belief systems.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • The major American Indian cultures can be distinguished from one another based on geographic region, natural resources, community organization, economy, and belief systems.

Vocabulary

  • belief system
  • community organization
  • distinguish
  • economy

SS10.5.4

Determine the economic and cultural impact of European exploration during the Age of Discovery upon European society and American Indians.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • The economic and cultural impacts on European society and American Indians by European exploration during the Age of Discovery.
  • The significant early patrons and explorers.
  • The development and impact of the Columbian Exchange.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify the geography of North America.
  • Discuss the discoveries of Columbus and the exploration and conquests of Pizarro and Cortes.
  • Explain the economic and cultural impact of European exploration during the Age of Discovery upon European society and American Indians.
  • Identify significant early European patrons, explorers, and their country of origin.
  • Locate significant early European settlements in the New World.
  • Map the Columbian exchange.
  • Explain how science, technology, and economic factors have developed, changed and affected societies throughout history.
  • Explain how religious and philosophical ideas have been powerful forces throughout history.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • European exploration connected the old world to the new world creating both positive and negative changes across the globe.

Vocabulary

  • economic impact
  • cultural impact
  • Age of Discovery
  • patrons (King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella)
  • explorers (Christopher Columbus, Ponce de Leon, Hernando de Soto)
  • early settlements (St. Augustine, Quebec, Jamestown)
  • Columbian Exchange
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